Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Buckwheat, sentence 34

Then the willow told them of the haughty pride of the buckwheat, and of the punishment which followed in consequence.

Who acts: willow, punishment · What happens: tell, follow, pride · To what, where: heads, consequence, buckwheat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Buckwheat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (willow, punishment), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 told	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 willow	det
3	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 pride	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pride	det
8	haughty	haughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 pride	amod
9	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 buckwheat	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 buckwheat	det
12	buckwheat	buckwheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pride	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 punishment	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 punishment	cc
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 punishment	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 punishment	det
17	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	parataxis
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 followed	nsubj
19	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 punishment	acl:relcl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 consequence	case
21	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 followed	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the willow		heads = head		then	of the haughty pride of the buckwheat	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	follow	past	the punishment			consequence			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in consequence=Location
3	pride			the buckwheat					nom pride «feeling transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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